9 days ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Write and deliver reliable Java code with unit and integration tests.
- Optimize critical code and resolve performance bottlenecks in high-volume data systems.
- Lead projects by identifying risks, breaking down work, and estimating effort for engineers.
- Create technical designs for major features and build reusable team components.
- Mentor engineers on code quality and established coding practices.
- Work across requirements, design, prototyping, implementation, review, release, and monitoring.
- Resolve customer issues in collaboration with customer support.
- Use AI coding agents for incident resolution, feature development, testing, and investigations.
Requirements
- Expertise in Java development.
- Experience developing reliable software for high-volume data management under strict SLAs.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Expertise in database internal architecture and how databases respond to events and requests.
- Knowledge of popular NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Amazon DynamoDB.
- Knowledge of and appreciation for clean code practices.
- Ability to keep up with frontier agentic AI development.
- Preferred: experience with MongoDB or Amazon DynamoDB change data capture.
- Preferred: experience developing ETL or ELT data integration tools.
- Preferred: experience identifying and optimizing performance bottlenecks in distributed systems.
Benefits
- Full-time hybrid position based out of Fivetran’s Toronto office, combining remote flexibility with in-person collaboration.
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance, with variation by country and worker type.
- Paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off.
- RSU stock grants.
- Professional development and training opportunities.
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and team-building activities.
- Monthly cell phone stipend.
- Mental health support platform with therapy, coaching, and mindfulness resources for employees and covered dependents.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Fivetran
Fivetran builds a managed data integration platform that extracts data from hundreds of SaaS apps and databases and loads it into cloud data warehouses for analytics and AI teams. Sold as a subscription SaaS service, it provides prebuilt connectors, automated schema management, and ELT/replication to destinations like Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, and Redshift. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Oakland, it serves customers such as Autodesk, Condé Nast, JetBlue, and Morgan Stanley.